Healthy No Bake White Chocolate Raspberry Protein Bars

These healthy no bake white chocolate raspberry protein bars are sweet, tart, soft and chewy and the perfect snack to keep you satisfied between meals! Packed full of protein and naturally sweetened, these snack bars are gluten free, vegan, dairy free and paleo friendly!

“These aren’t sour enough. What is wrong with you?”

“Excuse me? What are you on about AGAIN?”

“Well, when I eat something paired with white chocolate, I expect it to be tart or sour, to balance it out. Duh!”

“There’s raspberries in there.”

“These are dried raspberries and are too sweet. You should have tested each one before you put them in the cookies.”

“Like each individual dried raspberry?”

“Yes.”

“You have issues. Anyway, you make no sense. There’s half a batch missing. I certainly didn’t eat them.”

“Oh I did. I just ate them with lemon tea, heavy on the lemon juice to balance it out. See what you make me do?”

While I can see her point that raspberries should generally be quite tart, the fact that I used the dried option would have been a good indication that it would have been more on the sweet side (as with most dried fruits).

Granted, I DID try it first with raspberries (both frozen and fresh) and it looked like a gory movie, in snack bar form. Unlike some other fruits (mashed bananas, applesauce or even pumpkin) which can easily be mixed into flours or used in no-bake recipes, sadly, raspberries (or in the quantity and amount of flavor I wanted for the recipe) are NOT one to do so.

The other issue I have with using fresh raspberries (or rather, failing using fresh raspberries) is the COST!!!!!!!!

Sorry for shouting.

For a punnet (pint) of raspberries, you’d be looking at $7-$8.

I could buy……..(time for a quick search on Ralph’s)

-4 cartons of dairy free milk

-Too many apples

-19 cent bananas (at Trader Joes)

-7 packets of gum

-8 songs off iTunes

-2 discounted roasted chickens

While dried fruits ARE typically more expensive than their fresh counterparts, because of their natural (extra) sweetness, you only need a tiny amount to compensate.

Anyway, enough complaining on my end. Let’s talk about the flavor marriage of white chocolate and raspberries in these no bake protein bars!

These healthy no bake raspberry and white chocolate protein bars are a quick and easy recipe which takes barely any time at all to whip up! Unlike store bought protein bars which typically contain a slew of (unknown) ingredients, these use wholesome, healthy ingredients which you can feel about putting in your body! These bars have amazing taste and texture too- Soft, chewy (yet portable!) and bursts of sweetness and tartness! I used these dairy free white chocolate chips, but have also made my own version to keep them paleo and gluten free, following this tutorial. Depending on which you choose, these bars are naturally gluten free, vegan, paleo, dairy free and refined sugar free!

In case there are any of you guys like Niki out there who don’t want to risk the potential ‘over-sweetness’, I mixed half tart cranberries with the raspberries so your taste buds will have the ultimate taste sensation!

Make these healthy no bake white chocolate raspberry protein bars and if your taste buds want to be tantalized, just add cranberries.

Or, well, drink lemon tea.

Geebuz.

Want to see a step-by-step video of how these are made? Check out just how easy they are below!

Healthy No Bake White Chocolate Raspberry Protein Bars

2016-04-06 07:00:01

Serves 8

These healthy no bake white chocolate raspberry protein bars are sweet, tart, soft and chewy and the perfect snack to keep you satisfied between meals! Packed full of protein and naturally sweetened, these snack bars are gluten free, vegan, dairy free and paleo friendly!

In a large mixing bowl, combine the flours, protein powder, granulated sweetener and mix well.

In a microwave safe bowl or stovetop, combine the nut butter and liquid sweetener and heat until melted.

Pour the wet mixture into the dry and mix well- It should be crumbly. Add the dried raspberries, cranberries and white chocolate chips, and mix until fully incorporated. Using a tablespoon, add the dairy free milk of choice, until a thick firm batter is formed.

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I hear ya, mate! Fresh berries are so darned expensive. We have a bunch of raspberry bushes in our backyard, though…so I’m thinking these bars need to make an appearance around here in, oh, about 5 more months. 🙂 P.S. Did you make these bars in LAX? Because that would be pretty epic.

I do love sweets that have some tartness thrown in! Also, raspberries are so much more expensive! Plus, they go bad way faster than all the other berries, so if I haven’t used them within two days of buying I basically just wasted my money…..

I balance out sweet with salty. I’ve been trying to curb my sweet tooth lately, so I’m enjoying tart things and even have branched out with dark chocolate. I’m loving just eating coconut butter on its own, but it sounds like it would make great white chocolate chips as well. Great recipe Arman 🙂

I just couldn’t focus on work today so I pretty much procratinated all day. After I had cooked and cleaned everything and also taken a nap I ran out of ideas. Then I read your post. Then I made these bars 🙂 I feel like they will pair well with strong coffee.

I agree that some things can be way too sweet, but I prefer something bitter like dark chocolate or unsweetened nut butters! Tastes amazing. I love these bars so much because they’re very soft and doughey–they don’t taste like those cardboard chalky protein bars but almost like cake in a bar!

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